rubberman wrote:
Having said that, the 2014 Adelaide Airport Master Plan allows for facilities for handling the A380 if needed.
Very nice link -- I haven't see that website before. Thanks for posting.jimbly wrote:A little light reading on Adelaide airport, passenger numbers etc - sadly no sign of other new overseas carriers
That's monthly international stats.[Shuz] wrote:Is that average daily movements?
What 5-star luxury at Adelaide’s first pet hotel will get your pooch
PETS will be able to watch their favourite TV shows from the comfort of a four-poster bed at SA’s first luxury hotel for animals.
Work on the $9 million development is set to start at Adelaide Airport next month, providing a pets’ paradise that is anything but a dog’s life.
The hotel will include 32 luxury kennels with wrought iron dog beds, TVs and a private outdoor dog run.
Owners missing their animals while on holiday will be able to make Skype calls to their pets.
The hotel will offer “companion boarding”, where dogs and cats that are used to being together can be housed in pairs.
An artist’s impression of the new pet hotel planned for Adelaide Airport.
Guide Dogs SA will run the hotel, which is scheduled to open in August.
It will use profits from the venture to expand services for people with disabilities.
Guide Dogs SA CEO Kate Thiele said there would also be 168 standard kennels and 62 condos for cats.
A further 84 standard kennels will be added later.
Full Article : http://www.news.com.au/national/south-a ... e3414a93ac
The $13 million base consolidates RFDS Central Operations' planes, services and administration staff on the same site for the first time, the location of which will eventually become an aeromedical precinct.
The new RFDS hangar has also been built to accommodate the twin-engine jet Pilatus PC-24, a planned addition to the three current Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turbo-propeller aircraft.
RFDS chief executive John Lynch said it would have the same capability to land and take-off from dirt and gravels strips of sufficient length, "but it will give us far greater response capability for major trauma".
"It will probably go close to shaving 40 per cent off our flying time on long-haul flights to Alice Springs, Darwin or other capital cities.
The beginning of an aeromedical precinctThe new aeromedical jet is expected to be introduced in late 2018 while the replacement of the PC-12s, at a cost of more than $50 million, is expected over the next five years.
Full report including info on potential drones.Overlooking the airport's main runway, the new hangar and facilities are adjacent to the state's rotary aircraft base, while the State Government is constructing new facilities on the site for its specialist MedSTAR retrieval staff to accompany planes and helicopters on missions.
"We had this dream over four years ago .... about creating an area where fixed wing was located in the same precinct as the rotary wing," Mr Lynch said.
"And then it made sense that the Government would follow with state-side retrieval services."
RFDS Central Operations has been operating from Adelaide Airport since 1991 after taking over air ambulance services operated by St John Ambulance.
$50 million hotel to be built at Adelaide Airport
Paul Starick, Chief Reporter, The Advertiser
October 21, 2016 9:30pm
AIRLINE passengers will walk directly from a new 165-room hotel into Adelaide Airport’s terminal – the first major stage of a $2 billion expansion.
Plans for the $50 million hotel, exclusively revealed by The Advertiser, show the seven-storey building and its road entrance replacing the defunct vehicle northern ramp to the terminal’s second-floor check-in area.
Construction of the Atura-branded hotel, mostly sited on the old car park to the terminal’s north, is expected to start in April next year, ahead of an opening in the last quarter of 2018.
Adelaide Airport managing director Mark Young said the hotel would cater for passengers catching early-morning flights, particularly after meetings or conferences.
The “urban, industrial and design-inspired” hotel will include a restaurant, bar, business, centre and flexible function and meeting spaces.
The hotel will be the biggest step yet in a $2 billion expansion detailed in an airport masterplan released in 2014, which also included tripling the terminal’s size by 2044 and building several multistorey office buildings in a new business area.
“This really kicks off our long-term vision to create an easy, seamless connection between our aeronautical activities and our planned Airport Business District,” Mr Young said.
“More than 8700 people are directly employed on the airport and many business people fly to Adelaide to conduct business solely at the airport.
“We expect demand to grow as passenger numbers continue to increase and we develop our ... infrastructure.”
About 350 jobs will be created during the hotel’s construction and a further 45 jobs when it opens.
A walkway will connect the terminal, plaza space and the hotel, just to the north of an existing covered bridge linking the terminal to the multistorey carpark.
It is understood passenger pick-up and drop-offs will continue on the ground level just to the west of the terminal.
Atura is operated by Event Hospitality and Entertainment, which also has brands including Rydges, Event cinemas, QT Hotel and Resorts, Art Series Hotels and Thredbo Resort.
Event group managing director David Seargeant said the hotel would have a focus on “great design” and quality food and drink, which he believed would appeal to airport visitors as well as hotel guests. The restaurant, bar and lobby will be accessible by all airport patrons.
Domestic passenger numbers have reached seven million annually on the back of 1.9 per cent growth, according to Adelaide Airport’s 2015-16 annual report.
International passenger numbers – now more than 857,000 annually – are expected to rebound from a recent slump after Qatar Airlines connection to Doha launched in May and China Southern’s launch in December of operations to Guangzhou, in mainland China.
Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said the new hotel would be a significant investment in the travel industry’s infrastructure.
“The South Australian visitor economy is currently at a record $5.95 billion and we are working hard to achieve our goal of an $8 billion tourism industry by 2020,” he said.
In the airport’s annual report, Mr Young says planning continues on the terminal expansion outlined in the masterplan and work is expected to start within a year.
Forecast further passenger growth to 18.1 million annually by 2034 - up from 7.89 million now - is expected to underpin the expansion, which is expected to generate about 20,000 jobs.
Mostly people who arrive on late flights or have a early morning departure. I suspect some regional travellers who have an overnight connection (such as Port Lincoln -> Adelaide -> Singapore or Dubai -> Adelaide -> Whyalla) would use it.PeFe wrote:Not quite sure who needs to stay at Adelaide Airport......but anyways it looks good, and another small step towards the new South Australian economy....
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